Category: Nonfiction

“You who live safe in your warm houses, You who find, returning in the evening, hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is…

The Fire Next Time contains two powerful, profound, and intelligent essays written on racism. The first essay named “My Dungeons Shook” is a letter…

This memoir of Stefan Zweig is one man’s yearning for a lost yesterday. Zweig lived through two world wars, witnessed how the society gradually…

Witnessing the death of a loved one is one of the most difficult situations that one can face. The mental agony of such times…

Emile Zola is one of the most gifted French authors. His works won’t disappoint readers who expect more than mere storytelling. Through his work,…

In 1786, acting on an impulse, Goethe takes a journey to Italy. He visits many Italian cities including Venice, Verona, Naples, Sicily, and Rome….

This is the best work I’ve read after Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, which I found profoundly informative to amateur writers like…

The Words is one of the most interesting autobiographies I’ve read. Although it mainly covers the first ten years of the life of Jean-Paul…

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen is a collection of short stories that states a brutally true account of horror and survival…